Category Archives: Web Design

Our Web Design User Group is a chance for those charged with maintaining their departments web space to gather and discuss current trends and topics. Join us for problem solving, support and presentations.

Free, self-paced Web Design tutorials are available for COE faculty and staff. ECS Training has purchased licensing for a set of excellent, step-by-step web design tutorials from Western Civilisation, Inc. As part of the licensing agreement, we are granted permission to post these tutorials on our shared drive for all COE User group members to access.

There are four courses, plus one guide:

HTML and XHTML for CSS

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Level 1

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Level 2

Color and Graphics for the World Wide Web

The Complete CSS Guide

The tutorials are available as self-paced courses via the College’s gen_info shared drive –.

Lynda.com has released a new training course on creating accessible PDFs. The course explains why accessibility is important and what features an accessible PDF should include, before showing you two workflows for creating accessible PDFs: one in Word and one in InDesign. He also covers making an existing PDF file accessible using tools in Adobe Acrobat.